for going on with my further studies, i took the entrance examination in a senior middle school last week. i still remember there were more than three hundred candidates taking part in this examination. for the first day, in the morning, chinese was easy.

　　we were required to write a composition of 250 words on "my home life", and give definitions and illustrations to twenty phrases. in the afterno on, we took an english examination. there were dictation, sentence formation, and analysis for oral english. in the oral examination, i was questioned about my home life, my experience in the junior middle school and my future prospects.

　　on the second day, we were examined on history and geography in the morning and physics and chemistry in the afternoon.